Keeping it simple
Explaining one's own country to foreigners can be a difficult task, so Gianni Riotta (editor of the RAI news program, TG1) has tried to paint a simplified picture for the Wall Street Journal, crafting...
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Instant appreciation
SWG, a marketing and media research company, has published on its YouTube channel a video exhibiting an application of its VideoWave system, analyzing the reactions of the TV audience to a couple of video...
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Politicians influencing citizens’ agenda influencing politicians’ agenda
I think I'll be coming back again and again to the three points written by Luca De Biase about possible ways for the citizens' agenda to manifest itself, gain public momentum and acquire the ability to...
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TV debate 2.0
Looks like in the oncoming elections Italians will have to do without the usual TV debate opposing two candidates, since there will be 8 of them. With a simple combinatorial calculation, that would require...
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No music day
A strange initiative: No music day. I decided to observe it, and it was an easy thing to do in such a long working day: I just had to force myself to turn off the radio during the four hours I spent driving...
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RSS weeds
Last week I made the resolution to bring down the number of RSS subscriptions from 182 to a more manageable, lower figure. But after one week of unsubscriptions, I see no sensible improvement. It looks...
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V-Day reactions
Maybe it is depressing that the most relevant political event in these last weeks was driven by a comedian. It is curious indeed that the most profound political analysis of the same event has been written...
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A fact is a fact is a fact
PolitiFact is a project of the St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly to help you find the truth in the presidential campaign. Every day, reporters and researchers from the Times and CQ will...
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Eat my feed (and choke on it)
I have already written about the theft of contents by a local newspaper, copying posts from some news blogs (which are, by the way, registered journals of their own). To tell the truth, the source is mentioned...
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Naked ambition, ten days later
I am a bit disappointed with the lack of vital reactions among Italian online newspapers to the Financial Times article about women in advertising. I have read some responses, but they mostly fell within...
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This is not a blog post
I'd like this one to be an in-depth, thorough article and not a superficial blog post. It is hard to contradict Jakob Nielsen, the usability guru, even when he takes an unpopular stance and speaks against...